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• Spring 2019

  Editor’s Journal

  Kevin Finneran

  The first scientific papers about breakthrough developments in the use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR appeared in late 2012 and early 2013. Researchers soon recognized that this relatively accurate and easy-to-use technology… Read More

• Fall 2018

  Ground Truth: Corona Landmarks

  Julie Anand, Damon Sauer

  

  In this series of images of what remains of the Corona project, Julie Anand and Damon Sauer investigate our relationship to the vast networks of information that encircle the globe. The Corona… Read More

• Winter 2017

  Fashion, Animal, Sound

  Steve Miller

  

  The images in Steve Miller’s Fashion, Animal, Sound series are all X-rays. He began experimenting with the technology decades ago because it enabled him to re-invent the notion of a portrait by… Read More

• Spring 2017

  Glass Microbiology

  Luke Jerram

  

  Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary arts practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations, and live artworks. He lives in the United Kingdom and creates work across the globe. Glass Microbiology is a collection of… Read More

• Summer 2019

  Walking in Antarctica

  Helen Glazer

  

  Walking in Antarctica is inspired by Helen Glazer’s experience as a 2015 grantee of the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Since returning from her trip, she has been working… Read More

• Spring 2016

  Forum – Spring 2016

  Dale Jamieson, Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer, Alan Miller, Robert L. Hirsch, Norman R. Augustine, Naomi Oreskes, Mary Woolley, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Sherwood Boehlert, Rush D. Holt, Reiner Grundmann, Richard Hamblyn, Mark Bessoudo, Jessica R. Lovering, William A. Sahlman, Joseph B. Lassiter III, Roar Fosse, Richard J. Bonnie, Bill Godshall, Carlo Pietrobelli

  Purposeful science In “Fact Check: Scientific Research in the National Interest Act” (Issues, Winter 2016), Congressman Lamar Smith critiques the concerns presented by Democrats, scientists, and a number of social… Read More

• Fall 2015

  Mapo Tofu with Spicy Cucumber Side

  Chris Merchant

  “Brain is like…black orb number eight,” Przemyslaw says. Orange light streams into the diner. Usually, the reporters just ask a few questions, shoot video, and scatter. Not this time. Przemyslaw fingers the… Read More

• Winter 2011

  Time for Climate Plan B

  William B. Bonvillian

  Policymakers in the United States and elsewhere have assumed for 15 years that putting a price on carbon would be an effective strategy for addressing climate change. Nations would price carbon emissions,… Read More

• Fall 2017

  What Does Innovation Today Tell Us About the US Economy Tomorrow?

  Jeffrey Funk

  How does the future of technological innovation look for the United States economy? Experts disagree. Techno-optimists such as Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Martin Ford, and Ray Kurzweil claim that there are endless… Read More

• Fall 2018

  William Utermohlen

  Issues

  

  William Utermohlen was born in south Philadelphia in 1933. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1951 to 1957 and on the G.I. bill at the Ruskin School… Read More

• October 2, 2018

  Revisiting the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

  Tom Burroughs

  A century ago this year, influenza swept much of the world, killing perhaps 50 million people—one of every 30 humans on the planet. Today, top health groups say flu pandemics are nearly… Read More

• Summer 2016

  Detroit Industry Murals

  Diego Rivera

  

  The Detroit Industry murals by prominent Mexican artist Diego Rivera pay tribute to Detroit’s manufacturing base and labor force. In the first half of the twentieth century, Detroit was the center of… Read More

• Fall 2017

  A Silicon Valley Catechism

  Frank Pasquale

  For over a decade, business books have exhorted managers to be “supercrunchers”—numbers-obsessed quantifiers, quick to make important decisions as “data driven” as possible. There is an almost evangelical quality to this work,… Read More

• Summer 2016

  Civil Society’s Role in a Public Health Crisis

  Jay Walker

  When the next major pandemic strikes, it will be accompanied by something never before seen in human history: an explosion of billions of texts, tweets, e-mails, blogs, photos, and videos rocketing across… Read More

• Winter 2016

  Citizen Engineers at the Fenceline

  Gwen Ottinger

  Environmental regulators would do a better job protecting air quality and public health if they worked with local communities.

• Summer 2014

  Natural Histories

  400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library In a time of the internet, social media networks, and smart phones, when miraculous devices demand our attention with beeps, buzzes, and spiffy… Read More

• Summer 2014

  Forum – Summer 2014

  Robert Atkinson, Cong Cao, Richard P. Suttmeier, Charles F. Manski, Miles Parker, Mike Bithell, Patrick Lin, David W. Kreutzer, Eville Gorham, Michael H. Klein, Mike Coburn, Lan Xue, Denis Simon

  Evidence-driven policy In “Advancing Evidence-Based Policymaking to Solve Social Problems” (Issues, Fall 2013), Jeffrey B. Liebman has written an informative and thoughtful article on the potential contribution of empirical analysis… Read More

• Summer 2011

  The Little Reactor That Could?

  Ross Carper, Sonja Schmid

  A week before Halloween 2009, John R. Deal, an entrepreneur who goes almost exclusively by “Grizz,” took the stage at the Denver Art Museum to deliver the headline talk at an evening… Read More

• Winter 2011

  Making Stories Visible: The Task for Bioethics Commissions

  Adam Briggle, Meera Lee Sethi

  A little before lunchtime on December 6, 1957, when the United States made its first attempt to match the triumph of Russia’s Sputnik 1 by launching its own Vanguard TV3 satellite into… Read More

• Summer 2016

  Reshaping Space Policies to Meet Global Trends

  Bhavya Lal

  The space sector is undergoing a major transformation. Fifty years ago, the United States and the Soviet Union conducted the only significant national space programs, and only a small number of commercial… Read More

• Spring 2016

  Germline Gene Therapy: Don’t Let Good Intentions Spawn Bad Policy

  Henry Miller

  The proposed moratorium on clinical applications of gene editing technology reveals ignorance about how innovation works, and callousness about human suffering. “Human gene therapy” has been one of the most ambitious goals… Read More

• Fall 2015

  Communicating the Value and Values of Science

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Science is communicated to the public, press, and policymakers in various ways by distinguished entities, which I have characterized elsewhere as custodians of knowledge. These include governmental institutions such as the National… Read More

• Spring 2015

  Clean Energy Diplomacy from Bush to Obama

  Graham Pugh

  The Bush administration didn’t get everything wrong about climate change, and the Obama administration isn’t getting everything right. A truly effective climate policy would include the best elements of each approach. Among… Read More

• Winter 2007

  Growing Old or Living Long: Take Your Pick

  Laura L. Carstensen

  The 20th century witnessed two profound changes in regions of the world where people are well educated and science and technology flourish: Life expectancy nearly doubled, and fertility rates fell dramatically. As… Read More

• Summer 2016

  Surviving the Techstorm

  Eleonore Pauwels

  In A Dangerous Master, Wendell Wallach, a scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, tells the story of modern society’s struggle to cope with technology’s complexity and uncertainty. In the… Read More

• Winter 2015

  Forum – Winter 2015

  William B. Bonvillian, Alan I. Leshner, Fanta Aw, Edward Alden, Diane Ravitch, Sarah A. Lewis, Robert Nerem, Kate Konschnik, Byron Newberry, Glen Miller, Deborah G. Johnson, Darryl Farber, Roel Snieder, Peter Kroes

  Immigration reform In “Streamlining the Visa Immigration Systems for Scientists and Engineers” (Issues, Fall 2014), Albert H. Teich articulates very well many of the arguments for making the U.S. visa… Read More

• Winter 2016

  Exceptional Circumstances: Does Climate Change Trump Democracy?

  Nico Stehr

  Researchers who flirt with the idea that more authoritarian governance would help us address global warming are badly mistaken. What’s really needed is more democracy. The threats to democracy in the modern… Read More

• Fall 2014

  Imagining the Future City

  Rider W. Foley, Darren Petrucci, Arnim Wiek

  A rich blend of engaging narrative and rigorous analysis can provide decisionmakers with the various perspectives they need when making choices with long-range consequences for cities around the world. An ashen sky … Read More

• Fall 2014

  Imagining Deep Time

  An exhibit at the National Academy of Sciences Building, Washington, DC “Geohistory is the immensely long and complex history of the earth, including the life on its surface (biohistory), as distinct from… Read More

• Winter 2015

  Is China a Clean-Energy Model?

  William Chandler

  Global climate negotiations have long been stymied by disagreement between rich and poor countries over who should take responsibility for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Less-developed nations tell developed countries, “You created this… Read More